Triple Negative Breast Cancer in the News
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Triple Negative Breast Cancer
April 2010 - On the Record with Greta Van Susteren
Fox News Correspondent, Jennifer Griffin discusses her personal experience with triple negative breast cancer.
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Triple Negative Breast Cancer
February 2010 - Today Show
Jennifer Griffin, National Security Correspondent for Fox News, talks to Hoda Kotb about her battle with triple negative breast cancer.
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Weekly Wings
October 2009 - MyWorkButterfly.com
Breast Cancer Awareness Month Honors the Founders of TNBC (Triple Negative Breast Cancer) Foundation.
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SWAC - Sealed With A Cure
October 2009 - Splendicity.com
Read the story behind the TNBC Foundation's partnership with beauty brand Purple Lab, and the creation of SWAC - a lip gloss named for Nancy Block-Zenna. Purple Lab is donating 20% of net proceeds to the TNBC Foundation. Read more
Click here to watch Karen Robinovitz, founder of Purple Lab and creator of SWAC, describe her commitment to our cause.
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Positively Speaking
Fall 2009 - CURE Today
by Nicole Lebrasseur, PhD and Heather L. Van Epps, PhD
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Targeting the Triple Threat
Fall 2009 - CURE Today
An excellent article about the latest developments in the fight against triple negative disease. Contributors include TNBC advisors Drs. Lisa Carey and Eric Winer. Download the article |
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A Rosy Future
September 2009 - In Style
Highlights products that help fund the fight against breast cancer, including the "perfect party top" designed by Rebecca Taylor (www.shopbop.com). 100% of the sales proceeds go to the Triple Negative Breast Cancer Foundation. Read the article
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Retail Therapy
September 2009 - Marie Claire
Leading up to breast cancer awareness month, Marie Claire highlights pink products includes Rebecca Taylor's new pink ruffle blouse ($225 at Shopbop.com). 100% of the proceeds from sales of the blouse will go to the Triple Negative Breast Cancer Foundation. Read the article
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New breast cancer drugs promising, Komen Chief Scientific Advisor “encouraged”
June 2009 - Susan G. Komen for the Cure
Results from early studies involving drugs that show promise as treatments for some of the most aggressive and hard-to-treat forms of breast cancer have leading researchers “extraordinarily encouraged” and anxious to expand clinical trials as early as this summer.
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Breast Cancer Groups Team Up with $6.4 Million Grant
May, 2009 - (201) Health
Funds raised by the Triple Negative Breast Cancer Foundation (TNBCF) will be used to jump start a promising $6.4 million dollar research project at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Comprehensive Cancer Center.
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Fighting Aggressive Breast Cancer: UAB Wins $6.4 Million Nonprofit Grant
April 14, 2009 - Medical News Today
Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Comprehensive Cancer Center have been awarded a $6.4 million grant from two national nonprofit groups that are partnering in the fight against an aggressive and difficult-to-treat form of cancer called "triple negative" breast cancer.
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Tea & Talk for Awareness
April 2009 - (201)
The TNBC Foundation and Saks Fifth Avenue hosted Tea & Talk for Awareness, a shopping benefit to raise awareness of the disease.
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Angel Interview of the Month
April 2009 - The Angel Rock Project
Each month, The Angelrock Project features an Angel Interview of the Month, interviews with people who provide unique and life-saving services within large non-profit organizations. We hope that by reading their stories, you will understand their special contribution to society by working for invaluable NGO's within the organization's headquarters or in the field.
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Rebecca Taylor Spring 2009 Collection - A Spring Bouquet
of Fashion
April 2009 - L.A. Splash
Rebecca Taylor unveiled her Spring/ Summer 2009 Collection recently as September’s Fashion Week catapulted past the winter blahs and into the summer of love with a line that featured retro-fashion circa 1969. Read more about Rebecca Taylor's collaboration with the TNBC Foundation.
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Susan G. Komen For The Cure and
Triple Negative Breast Cancer
Foundation Unite to Fight
Aggressive Form of Breast Cancer
January 12, 2009 - Cancer Compass
When her doctor told her she had breast cancer, Sonja Draught thought detecting it early had greatly enhanced her odds of living because that is the case for most forms of cancer. Read the article
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TNBCF is supporting
a $6.4 million research grant
with Susan G. Komen for the Cure
January, 2009 - PR Newswire
TNBCF is supporting a $6.4 million research grant with Susan G. Komen for the Cure, focused exclusively on triple negative breast cancer. Read more
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Triple-Negative Breast Cancer: Current Approaches & New Frontiers
January 2009 - Medscape
Read the transcript of a panel discussion on triple negative disease from the 31st Annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS). Three of the panelists, Drs. Eric Winer, Lisa Carey and George Sledge are members of the TNBC Foundation's Advisory Board. Also on the panel is patient advocate Elizabeth Frank.
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Triple Negative Breast Cancer:
Risk Factors to Potential Targets
December 15, 2008 - Clinical Cancer Research
On December 11, 2007 the Triple Negative Breast Cancer Foundation and Susan G. Komen for the Cure convened a meeting of clinicians, investigators, and advocates to review the state of current clinical and translational research on TNBC and make recommendations regarding opportunities for research in this breast cancer subtype. This is a report derived from that meeting.
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Advocates Put Triple Negative
Breast Cancer to the Test
December 2008 - Cure Today
Learn more about how the TNBC Foundation was established and the multi-million dollar triple negative research grant the foundation is co-funding. Download the article
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A New Mission for Rita
October 2008 - Lancaster New Era
Millersville professor and community activist uses own diagnosis to educate other black women about little-known breast cancer.
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Triple Threat: How to fight the breast cancer disproportionately affecting young Black women
October 2008 - Essence
On any given day at a hospital on Chicago's South Side, Olufunmilayo Olopade, M.D., can be found doing one of the things she does best: setting women straight about the realities of breast cancer and preaching the gospel of early, aggressive treatment.
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Breast Health Handbook
October 2008 - Shape
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Pink Power
October 2008 - Self
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You Can Help Fight Breast Cancer
October 13, 2008 - Life & Style
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On the Move Against Breast Cancer
October 2008 - (201)
(201) Joins together philanthropists, survivors and activists.
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Couple Runs to Raise Awareness
July 24, 2008 - ABC 7
See the husband and wife who are teaming up to raise awareness for a type of breast cancer.
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The Missing Pieces
June 17, 2008 - The Plain Dealer
Learn how the absence of key markers in cells has doctors looking for new answers for triple negative breast cancer
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McDermott Handcrafted Cues Introduces Cue for the Cure to Benefit Breast Cancer Research
May 2008 - Inside Pool
Learn more about the new Pink Ribbon Limited Edition Cue created to benefit the Triple Negative Breast Cancer Foundation.
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The Fund Raiser: Malaak Compton-Rock
May 2008 - Essence
Learn more about how the Triple Negative Breast Cancer Foundation got its start from philanthropist Malaak Compton-Rock. Download the article
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Intriguing People:
Malaak Compton-Rock
March 30, 2008 - The Record
Learn more about Malaak Compton-Rock's involvement with the Triple Negative Breast Cancer Foundation and her numerous other philanthropic endeavors.
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Malaak on Good Morning America
March 19, 2008 - Good Morning America
Malaak Compton-Rock was featured on Good Morning America on March 19, 2008 to discuss her projects with an emphasis on the Triple Negative Breast Cancer Foundation.
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Triple Negative Breast Cancer
March 19, 2008 - Write Where You Are
The article discusses Malaak Compton-Rock's appearance on Good Morning America with a special focus on her work with the Triple Negative Breast Cancer Foundation.
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Honoring a Friend
February 7, 2008 - The Record
Malaak Compton-Rock discusses her involvement with the Triple Negative Breast Cancer Foundation.
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Negative, Negative, Negative!
February 2008 - Clinical Breast Cancer
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Friends For Life - One Woman's Struggle Touches Many
Holiday 2007 - Englewood
Find out how the Triple Negative Breast Cancer Foundation got started and learn more about it's honorary founder, Nancy Block-Zenna. Download the article
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TNBC Foundation
November/December 2007 - Bergen County Magazine
Features highlights from the TNBC Foundation's inaugural fundraiser, "Peace, Love and a Cure".
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"Volunteer Knitters Fight Deadly
New Type of Breast Cancer"
November 28, 2007 - Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Karen Luks, head of the preschool at Brooklyn Friends School, discovered pink scarves piling up in her office after she mentioned that she would be selling scarves at the school’s annual Holiday Crafts Fair to help raise awareness of triple negative breast cancer.
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"Style Watch: Pink Party"
October 15, 2007 - People Magazine
Designers are thinking "pink" in honor of breast cancer awareness month. Includes Gianna Rose Atelier's Savon Pour Une Remede (giannarose.com), which provides 15% of sales to the Triple Negative Breast Cancer Foundation.
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"Give Back Gorgeously"
October 2007 - Glamour Magazine
Highlights beauty products that support breast cancer research, including Gianna Rose Atelier's Savon Pour Une Remede (giannarose.com), which provides 15% of sales to the Triple Negative Breast Cancer Foundation.
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"Who Gets Breast Cancer
and Who Survives?"
October 2007 - Redbook Magazine
Provides a look at some of the latest research into breast cancer, profiles of ordinary women battling this disease, sources for more information and suggestions to reduce breast cancer risk.
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The Breast Cancer Nobody
is Talking About
October 2007 - Oprah Magazine
The news about breast cancer is good, and getting better all the time - except for one virulent, fast-acting type that attacks more than twice as many young black women as all other women.
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A New Type of Breast Cancer Exposed!
October 2, 2007 - The Morning Show with Mike and Juliet
Find out why African-American women are most at risk! Plus, find out what one woman did that saved her life!
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Watch an interview with
the TNBC Foundation Board
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Breast Cancer More Deadly
in Black Women
September 6, 2007 - Washington Post/AP
A new study gives a possible explanation for why breast cancer is more deadly in black women: they are more likely to have tumors that do not respond to the hormone-based treatments that help many others with the disease.
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Black Women And Breast Cancer
August 26, 2007 - CBS Evening News
Scientists are studying a form of breast cancer they say strikes early, is resistant to standard drug treatments, and has a death risk factor for black women under age 50 that is 77 percent higher than white women of all ages.
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Her Fight Against Breast Cancer Inspired Charity
August 7, 2007 - The Record
Learn more about the TNBC Foundation's honorary founder, Nancy Block-Zenna, and the events that led to the formation of the Triple Negative Breast Cancer Foundation. Download the article
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